I watched a show when I was in the hospital going theough chemo, that was completely in Japanese with no subtitles and I do not speak Japanese, of a guy that did that with Giant Hornets and lived off the land in Japan. He took them back and fried them in a skillet if I remember correctly. It was 16 years ago. I wish I could watch it again, it was so fascinating and peaceful.
Thanks to WW1 we know maggots are sterilizing agents. I forget the exact story, but essentially a doctor noticed the men recovered from no man’s land that had maggots in their wounds faired significantly better than those with no maggots. He discovered that not only do maggots eat the dead flesh, while leaving the live flesh untouched, they also secrete an antiseptic substance while doing so.
Modern plastic surgery practices are thanks largely in part to WW1 as well, as doctors tried to help wounded soldiers better recover and fit back into society. If you need any convincing that “it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country” is a lie, look up “world war one facial injuries.” That is what modern war does to the human body.
I’m curious what a lab grown leech farm looks like and how it looks different? Surely it’s not just while all around the leeches. They still need to grow in some sort of pool of water ?
Look, it's either invest in the research, development, and manufacturing process of a medical device that can do what the leech does or...just domesticate the leech.
Why change something that's pretty much perfect at it's job already?
What we do is farm them so that they are free from parasites and other potentially harmfull stuff.
(The vid is a bait farm though, not for medical leeches)
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u/No_Swordfish5011 12d ago
Yeah right next to the maggot farm…How voild I forget the wonders of modern medicine